BCEFP 2015 – Studying for the exam

In a previous post I listed a some of the sources Brocade listed that one should use when studying for the BCEFP exam. Here I’m going through a those I found some comments on what what they are and what I think of them.

Beta Course Material

The first of the beta material available is something called “Brocade Ethernet Fabric Administration“. This is a few pdfs/slides with notes on them. Introduction of various features and components. Not much detail in the first 10 modules and basically all the modules are awfully short, some are one slide even. Hopefully this is just because it’s a beta. Progressively they become more detailed, which is good to not overwhelm the reader I guess. Checking out the data sheet for the CEF 300 course should give you some idea what you should learn after going through the materials. There are free materials available for the Ethernet Fabric Specialist Accreditation– it’s even on the tube. The youtube video is quite long but it’s an introduction to the thought behind the Ethernet Fabrics. It’s a bit outdated already I hope as they the talk talks about immaturity a lot, less than a year old. The presenter – Chip Copper – also mentions a Fabric Essentials 201 that should be out “later on down the line” – which is not out yet. Boo Urns!

Questions I got while reading material:

What is a hard-drop option in an extended ACL?

What does “override the control packet trap entries” mean? Brocade communities to the rescue. Is for normal transit traffic and traffic to the CPU == the management interface?